Contains a collection of letters from Peace Corps volunteers serving in various nations. Organized into sections on: Fitting In; Local Flavor; Witnessing Change; The Challenges of Service; National Standards; and Author Updates (What Have the Peace Corps Volunteer Authors Done Since They Wrote the Letters in This Book?).

A few days after President John F. Kennedy took office, Kennedy asked his brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver, to direct a Peace Corps Task Force. The Peace Corps was established by JFK via executive order on March 1, 1961, and Shriver accepted the president's request to officially lead the organization.

Peace Corps Volunteers agree to serve in order to meet the three goals of the agency: to provide assistance to the peoples of other countries; to help the people of other countries better understand Americans; and to help Americans better understand other peoples. This book helps fulfill the agency’s third goal through remarkable stories by Volunteers in the field.

Crossing Cultures With the Peace Corps will be most useful for elementary teachers and for language arts and social studies teachers in grades 6–12. Each story is followed by a lesson or teaching suggestions. Standards for English, social studies, and geography are listed for each lesson and spelled out on pages 131–134. In addition, each lesson is accompanied by “enduring understandings” and “essential questions,” which focus on the fundamental ideas underlying each lesson—ideas that the teacher wants the students to come away with.

Older students interested in volunteering with the Peace Corps, and members of the general public interested in what the Peace Corps does, will also enjoy this publication.

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$8.50

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$11.90

Publisher:

Peace Corps, Paul D. Coverdell World Wise Schools

Key Phrases:

Peace Corps Letters From the Field

Peace Corps

Anthropology

International Relations

Letters

Biography

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Item available Date:

09/24/2008

Last Status Update:

03/03/2016

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